From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Wed Aug 18 1999 - 09:02:17 MDT
Dan Fabulich wrote:
> Moss is also right that this would not prove MWI, but as far as I know MWI
> is the most plausible alternative to Copenhagen, so it would firmly
> establish MWI as valid scientific theory, at the very least.
The most plausible alternative, imho, would be to assume that the
wavefunction is not 'real' and is a product of limited knowledge. This,
btw, is the Copenhagen interpretation, not many people actually believe in
observer collapse. My own interpretation would be that although the
wavefunction is a product of limited knowledge it is no less real than
anything else. All physical theories are shaped by our limited knowledge.
Btw, Bryce DeWitt has a interesting review of _The Fabric of Reality_ at the
following URL:
http://naturalscience.com/ns/books/book02.html
Also could someone help me out - what is the name of the conjecture that
states the universe is one big ol' cellular automata, it's the
somebody-somebody conjecture (not Church-Turing).
BM
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